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Peter Perko R.G.D. Previous full time employers include an advertising and design communications agency in Toronto (Gingko Design and Communications) and a major Toronto book publisher, (McGraw Hill Ryerson). Peter’s awards include recognition from the Schoeflin (paper company) North America, and the U.S.-based University and Colleges Design Association (UCDA), including a citation for Overall Publications Program Imrovement for Humber, and an Award of Excellence for the design of the Humber Post-secondary Certificate. In 2002 a piece designed for Environment Canada was included in the first annual show of outstanding design in business entitled Design at Work, presented by the Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario. Eye Cue Design work was also honoured with a Trillium award (Ontario College system) for best promotional campaign for 2002, and Best Calendar Design for Continuing Education for 2004. In 2006, three of his posters were included in the “Eye Full” poster exhibition, a retrospective of some of the city’s best poster design, staged by RGD Ontario, as part of the month-long celebration of design and architecture in the City of Toronto.. In 1995 and 1997 Peter illustrated two books for children written by Joseph Kertes. The Gift, published by Groundwood Books, and The Red Corduroy Shirt, published by Stoddart Kids. Both received positive reviews by the literary press. Since then Peter has been exploring the area of digital fine art, and has exhibited in a number of shows across Central and Southern Ontario. In the 3rd year of college he independently produced an animated short film that was shown out of competition at the Ottawa ‘76 International Animation festival. Peter is a graduate of the 3-year Illustration (graphic design) diploma program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. * R.G.D. (Registered Graphic Designer) is the professional designation/accreditation for graphic designers in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is administered by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario, the self-regulatory body for graphic designers in the province, and the only one of its kind in the nation. The designation certifies that members have met a high standard of design and business practices. For more information please visit the RGD Ontario website at www.rgdontario.com.
For over 15 years Tiziana (Tizi) has operated her own freelance design consultancy, providing design services in a wide range of areas including corporate communications, training and sales support materials, travel brochures, magazine work, trade magazine ads, flyers, brochures and food packaging art. In addition, Tizi has provided art direction of photography, consultation on design strategies for sales and training programs and has worked closely with communications companies to develop the print side of communications packages for themselves and their clients. Apart from her close association with Eye Cue, her clients include Honda, Panasonic, TD Bank, Hiram Walker, Ford, Oshawa Foods, Dell, Hudson’s Bay Company, EP&T Magazine, Cadillac Fairview, and many more. Prior to Tizi’s independent design work, she was employed by a number of Toronto design companies over a period of 10 years. Having started out in layout and production work, moving into design and illustration, and, for the final 6 years of her full-time employment, as art director with duties which included managing staff, design direction, client consultation, art department management and coordination, and costing. Adept in all the main graphics software packages, Tizi is an expert in Quark XPress, and particularly in the efficient and accurate realization of multi page documents which include photos, diagrams, tables and graphs. Her ability to create the various elements required in Illustrator and Photoshop and carry out multilevel and cross-discipline revisions show her production and organization as well as design skills. She is also particularly proficient at working on bilingual material. Tizi attended the Ontario College of Art for 2 years, and completed the Design certificate program at George Brown College, winning the excellence award in her first year. She continues to take workshops in design and art whenever possible. Tizi has also taught adult night courses in computer design and layout at George Brown College. She has also taught children’s drawing courses for the Credit Valley Artisans and privately.
Ken graduated from the Illustration program at Sheridan College in 1983 and after working several years as an Art/Creative Director for various companies founded
Ignition Design & Communications in 1999.
Karen began her formal art training by majoring in commercial art throughout her five years at College Avenue Secondary School in Woodstock, Ontario. A three year illustration program followed at Sheridan College in Oakville. After spending some years in commercial design and illustration, Karen travelled to Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa where she spent two years as a designer/illustrator in support of a literacy and Bible translation mission. Upon return to Canada, she did freelance illustration for the educational publishing market. Illustrating children’s books seemed to be a next logical career step. A visit to Groundwood books yielded her first picture book The Auction in 1990. Many titles followed as Karen juggled the role of full-time mother with that of an award-winning professional illustrator. Karen continues to round out her time with educational work and commercial illustraion in association with her studio partners. One of her most recent books, Salmon Creek by Anette LeBox, was awarded the BC Book prize in 2003.
Chiya is one of the original resident members of Studio Fourteen, and now works from her home studio in Mississauga. Over the last seven years, Chiya has formed alliances and partnerships with web writers, artists, multimedia artists and programming experts to implement complex and dynamic websites. She has developed a wide range of websites for non-profit organizations and small businesses, with a special focus on the academic and health sectors, Chiya has created sites for the University of Toronto, Humber College and the Sunnybrook & Women’s Health Sciences Centre. She had developed and maintained a bilingual Website for the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, and participated in the expansion of Femmes en Santé, the French version of the Women’s Health Matters Website (developed by the Sunnybrook & Women’s Health Sciences Centre). Chiya has an honours B.Sc. in Biophysical and Environmental Geography (with a minor in French) from the University of Toronto, and a post-graduate certificate in Internet Management from Humber College. She has developed course curricula and conducted seminars and hands-on workshops on topics related to web publishing for Humber College, Webgrrls [sic] and for Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the U of T. Chiya’s specialties include: project management, website design and implementation, site architecture and navigation, graphics creation and layout, animation, video and sound clip creation for the web, HTML, Javascripts and cascading style sheets authoring, as well as digital photography. She is also a certified sommelier.
Patti Post Her varied experience includes co-authorship of a community college history book and production assistance for a radio documentary. She is also past winner of a student Ontario Press Council award for her profile of journalist Scott Taylor, who survived terrorist imprisonment in Iraq. Patti is an honours graduate of the Humber College School of Journalism for Print and Broadcast. She is also a member of the Professional Writers of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Editors Association of Canada.
Tracy has always believed that a balance can be struck between creativity, responsiveness to client needs and audience appeal. She has cultivated an approach that is equal parts intuition and professionalism, and applies it to her work ranging from web interface design and branding to corporate communications and advertising. Tracy brings a senior level of experience to conceptual development through to the supervision of final art. Tracy’s career began with Zurich Canada, as Graphic and Web Designer, she was responsible for creating and updating all of the companies internal and external websites. She worked on many corporate communications projects and assisted with brand management. She then joined Publicis Networks, an interactive web agency that gave her access to large and challenging accounts. The work, which included such clients as CIBC, HP, Health Canada and Canada Post, was creative, fast-paced and innovative. Web projects ranged from rich email campaigns and promotional pages to large websites and Flash demos. Over the past five years, Tracy has been applying her accumulated knowledge and experience to her own design practice. Believing that no design job is too big or too small, she brings every project her characteristic creativity, resourcefulness and special attention to detail. In this vein, she has collaborated with Viking Strategic Marketing on Toyota and Mazda accounts, WSP International on Sobeys Promotions and has developed clients of her own including Shoppers Drug Mart, Sun Life Financial, Foresters and United Way. In 2004, Tracy designed and developed www.freelancepool.com, a website that helps self-employed Canadians connect with companies across the
country who need freelance support. Tracy also volunteers and participates
in the Bizlaunch Entrepreneurship Program and Toronto’s SpeakEasy
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